1. Sign out your chromebook
Homeroom
Sign out your chromebook
Go to your locker—get your Interactive Reader.
Get a NOVEL!!
GAP=2A
Today is a B DAY!
Healthy Living-=FIELD!!

2. GAP Finish quiz from Friday Quiz corrections (due Friday)
Right answer and text evidence (quote)
Check Powerschool—any missing work
Novel to read

3. Warm Up 1st and 4th
1.Copy HW: write a poem about a sad experience—real or fiction (10 line minimum)—leave agenda out for me to sign.
2. Assessment Practice page 209
If you did not finish the quiz Friday (or take it) you need to finish it today or make arrangements to come in early one day this week.

4. 1.Copy HW: 202-207 in Interactive Reader.
Warm Up 2nd Block
1.Copy HW: in Interactive Reader.
2. Interactive Reader page 200 Vocabulary Practice.

5. Review Quiz What did we miss? Complete quiz corrections—due Friday.
Check Powerschool—any errors I need to take care of before the end of the quarter?
Let’s go over the HW from Friday—Interactive Reader.

6. Text Analysis Workshop p. 554 in textbook “Appreciating Poetry”
Form: the way the words and lines are laid out on the page
Line: the main unit of a poem
Stanza: like a paragraph, but in a poem
Conventional or traditional forms: follow fixed rules for rhythm, rhyme, line numbers, etc.
Irregular or open forms: have a rhythm like everyday speech
Free verse: open form, but does not have a pattern of rhyme

7. Look at form and structure
“A Minor Bird” pg. 554
Look at form and structure
Who is the speaker—what do we know about the speaker?

8. Under the Back Porch pg. 555 Read and answer 1-3 with your partner
How old is the speaker?
How does the speaker feel about his/her siblings?
What else do we know about the speaker?

9. Poetic Devices pg. 556
Sound Devices: techniques poets use that create a special sound to a poem.
Rhyme—same end sound
Rhythm—the beat
Repetition—repeating a word, phrase, or line
Alliteration—same beginning sound

10. Rhythm and Rhyme practice p. 557
“A word is dead”
What do we know about the speaker?
“Cynthia in the Snow”
How does the speaker feel about snow?
How do the sound devices impact the feel of the poem? How does this contribute to the mood?

11. Imagery and Figurative Language p. 558
simile—descriptive technique that compares one thing to another using the word “like” or “as”
metaphor—descriptive technique that compares one thing to another
personification—descriptive technique that gives human emotions or actions to a non-human item.

12. Analyzing Poetry practice p 559
With a partner, read and answer the questions on page 559.
Be ready to share your analysis—go beyond the questions!!!

13. EXIT TICKET
Write your own simile, metaphor, and personification to describe an object. Simile: Metaphor: Personification: